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An NC State researcher has developed a new way to get CRISPR/Cas9 into plant cells without inserting foreign DNA. This allows for precise genetic...

The team included researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Melbourne. Corals with increased heat...

Cassowaries are big flightless birds with blue heads and dinosaur-looking feet; they look like emus that time forgot, and they're objectively terrifying. They're also,...

Human self-control evolved in our early ancestors, becoming particularly evident around 500,000 years ago when they developed the skills to make sophisticated tools, a...

By listening to the beating hearts of stars, astronomers have for the first time identified a rhythm of life for a class of stellar...

Astronomers at the University of Canterbury (UC) have found an incredibly rare new Super-Earth planet towards the centre of the galaxy. The planet is...

Ants use their numbers to overcome navigational challenges that are too large and disorienting to be tackled by any single individual, reports a new...

Moths are important pollen transporters in English farmland and might play a role in supporting crop yields, according to a new UCL study. The research,...

Earth crust may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously thought, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life,...

Exhaustive seismic data from repeating earthquakes and new data-processing methods have yielded the best evidence yet that the Earth's inner core is rotating—revealing a...

A new machine learning tool can calculate the energy required to make—or break—a molecule with higher accuracy than conventional methods. While the tool can...